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MR. H. L. KENwARD, general sales director of the Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd., has just completed 25 years' service with the company, and, to mark the occasion, the staff under his control entertained him to a celebration 'dinner ill Birmingham on Friday last.
A large gathering of executives of the Vacuum Oil Co., Ltd., recently celebrated the completion of 35 years' service by MR. HUBERT HOLLIDAY, managing director of the company. In 1919 he became the youngest member of the board of directors, and, in 1933, was appointed managing director.
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MR. Eosm.. B. Folio, on of the founder of the Ford organization, is in England on a short visit. It was in 1928, when he was last in England, that Mr. Ford inaugurated the work of building the new factory at Dagenham. This week, revisiting Dagenham, Mr. Ford found an amazing transformation. While there he had luncheon with a number of leading Ford dealers from England, Scotland, Ireland and Guernsey, all of whom have been selling Ford vehicles for at least 25 years. He also visited the Fordson farms at Boreham, Essex, where experiments in power farming and the cultivation of new crops are carried out. As is generally known, Mr. Ford is the president of the Ford Motor Co. of Detroit.
Oil from Coal—New Plant in Yorkshire.
The -first plant in the world for Making Diesel oil from coal has been opened at Gawber, near Barugh, Yorks. The new plant has been erected by Low Temperature Carbonisation, Ltd., at a cost of £25,000, and specializes in the production of high-grade oil for road-transport vehicles.,
£4,000,000 London Road Improvements.
The London County Council has approved the following improvement schemes to cost altogether £4,052,800: —Widening of I-Egh Street, Notting Hill, £1,230,000; Western Avenue extension, £877,000; Cromwell Road extension, £1,020,000; Queen Victoria Street widening, £203,000 ; Euston Road widening, £12,800; Southend Lane, Lewisham, widening, £50,000.
• A Glass* Development.
The maker of Glasso cellulose, oil and synthetic finishes, British Glasurit, Ltd., has decided to incorporate its trade name, Glasso, in the name of the company. Consequently, this has been altered to Glasso Faint Product, • Ltd., and the new name will be in general use as from to-morrow, August 1. No change has taken place in the constitution of the company or in its staff.
A few months ago this contern movedinto its •newly constructed 'factory at Wadsworth-. •Road, • Peri-Vale, Middlesex, which • is equipped With modern plant for' the manufacture Of all kinds of paint.
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